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almost suddenly; no symptoms of hydrophobia having 
exhibited themselves, and nothing indicating that the animal 
was the subject of rabies .—Medical Times. 
RENAULT ON VENTILATION. 
At a recent discussion at the Paris Academy of Medicine, 
M. Renault remarked that “ his experience derived from 
observation among animals, might be advantageously detailed. 
He wished to exhibit the influence which absence of due 
ventilation exerts on animals in a state of health and when 
diseased. The great mortality occurring amongst the horses 
of the French cavalry has been diminished by more than one- 
half by increasing the amount of air supplied to the stables, 
no other change in the management having occurred. At the 
end of the Italian war, 10,000 cavalry were left with no other 
stabling but mere temporary sheds, but the mortality was 
quite insignificant, and not a single case of glanders occurred. 
The French government are now trying some experiments 
with respect to the results of the exposure of horses even to 
currents of air, some of the results having proved of a most 
favorable kind. As might be expected, the effects of the im¬ 
proved ventilation of stables has been still more fully ex¬ 
hibited with respect to sick and wounded horses/' Of this 
M. Renault adduces numerous examples, the general result 
of the improvements being a great diminution of disease, a 
greater amount of curability, and a far less proportion of 
diseases of a grave character .—Medical Times. 
CURE OF GA.NGRENE. 
At the last meeting of the Academie des Sciences, Dr. 
Langier sent in a paper on a new mode of treating gangrene. 
It having been ascertained by Dr. Reveil that gangrene is 
occasioned bv the diminution or total elimination of the 
oxygen necessary to maintain the vitality of the part attacked, 
Dr. Langier conceived the idea of keeping gangrenous parts 
immersed in an atmosphere of oxygen constantly renewed. 
The two cases treated by him in this manner have both 
ended in a complete cure, although the age of each patient 
exceeded seventy-four years.— Lancet. 
